The State of Remote Working
Prior to COVID-19, most organizations had remote work capabilities in place. But, the pandemic has caused even the most-prepared IT leaders to re-evaluate their readiness to support remote work, at scale. To gain insights into the IT capabilities necessary to ensure business continuity and workforce productivity, now and for the “next norm”, we conducted a TechValidate1 survey to our customer base in April 2020.
Here’s what we learned:
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Case Study: Travis Perkins
Travis Perkins plc is the UK’s biggest supplier of materials to the building, construction and home improvement markets. To significantly improve its monitoring, the Travis Perkins Group talked to industry analysts and vendors to investigate possible solutions and selected Riverbed® SteelCentral Aternity following a successful proof of concept.
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Digital Performance Solutions for Retail
Digital transformation is disrupting business models across all industries, especially retail, which has been at the forefront of digital transformation for more than a decade. The model, reliant on a physical store for customer interaction and transaction, has transformed into one that blends the digital and physical worlds into an omni-channel environment— the ultimate goal to deliver a seamless customer experience. ...
A Buyer’s Guide to Optimizing Remote Employees’ Extended Network
The shelter-in-place mandates put in place earlier in 2020 sent most employees home, and for the next few months they strived to stay connected and productive, while IT teams scrambled to provide infrastructures to support them. Now many organizations have realized there are benefits to having a distributed workforce, and thus are focused on tackling some of the network-related challenges that have compromised employee experience.
Remote user access is one top-of-mind concern. When employees are remote, connecting to on-premises apps can be ...
Blueprint for a Future Ready Workforce: A 3-Stage Approach for Adopting Modern Management and Security
How IT adapts in times of change:
When global events caused companies to make a rapid pivot to remote work, IT had no choice but to act fast. No matter where they were on the path to digital transformation, IT organizations across industries were responsible for onboarding a large number of employees onto new devices, managing a bigger population of distributed users, and keeping them all connected and secure.
For teams still using traditional PC lifecycle management methods on their Windows devices, these new demands quickly became a mas ...
Make Hybrid Cloud a Reality: 3 Organizations Share Their Insights
Organizations will continue to benefit from their data center investments, yet many of these organizations are also looking to benefit from the unique advantages offered by public cloud that cannot be cost-effectively delivered with today’s static data center environments.
- 4 Reasons to Extend Your Data Center to the Cloud:
1. Footprint expansion - Obtain capacity for new projects and expand into new geographies without building a new data center or investing in over-provisioning.
2. On-demand capacity - Handle unplanned temporary cap ...
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Hyper-Converged Goes Mainstream: Modernise Your Data Center and Transform IT
IT organisations need to support greater business agility and value through: • Scalability,...